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Medical and health personnel have the potential to play an important role in triage START in the event of a disaster. However, it is important to have an instrument in evaluating the level of knowledge and attitudes of medical and health dragons regarding the START triage. This instrument is essential for the development of a comprehensive and efficient START triage education program for medical and health personnel. Therefore, this study aims to assess the accuracy and consistency of knowledge and attitude instruments in conducting START triage for medical and health personnel. A cross-sectional study involving 100 respondents. This instrument is created through a literature review. The instrument totaled 10 items of statements on knowledge and 10 items of statements on attitudes categorized into 6 groups: 1) disasters; 2) START triage; 3) START triage principle; 4) START triage indicator; 5) START triage implementation procedure. The results of this study showed 100 participants, the majority of whom were female with an average age of 36 years. All participants are medical and health personnel. The instruments used in the study were validated through content validity (Pearson Product Moment) and biserial correlation. Utilizing internal consistency reliability, the study found satisfactory inter-item reliability for all knowledge items (0.70 – 0.73) and attitude items (0.86 – 0.90). Conclusion: these findings suggest that knowledge and attitudes in performing the START triage are important for medical and health personnel

Natural disasters continue to increase globally yearly. Over 1.6 billion people live in disaster-prone areas, conflict zones, and displacement areas. The impacts of disasters highlight the importance of disaster preparedness to minimize errors in disaster triage management. However, nurses' knowledge and skills in implementing initial triage procedures are still adequate. This scooping review aims to find an overview of implementing disaster triage education and training programs. This research is a scooping review using the Prisma flow chart in its implementation. This study showed significant results in all articles (n = 14) in increasing knowledge, attitudes, skills, awareness, preparedness, accuracy, and learning motivation in conducting disaster triage. The methods used are simulation methods (live, virtual reality, and screen-based) and training and education methods (lectures, discussions, videos, roleplay, and games) with material on disaster triage, START triage, and SALT triage concepts. This study concluded that disaster triage education for nurses and nursing students is very important to be provided by carrying out the latest methods so that the results are more effective.